Improvement in chests for teas, coffees



UNITED STATES PATENT GEORGE LILLIBRI'DGII, 0F LITTLE COOLEY, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHESTS FOR TEAS, COFFEES, &c.

Speciication forming part of Letters Patent No. 147,661, dated February 17, 1874; application filed December l, 1873.

To alt 'whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORG-E LILLIBniDG-E, ot' Little Cooley, in the county of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Chest for Tea, Coffee, Rice, &c.; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in which the igure is a perspective view with parts broken out.

Tile invention is an improvement in selfteeding tea and coffee chests or canisters, and relates to a vertical slide, which is eut out at the bottom, in combination with the inclined bottom ot' the chest and an outer trough or receptacle, as hereinafter fully set forth.

The chest A has a suitable cover, B, and a front trough or receptacle provided with ahinged cover, b. C is a false bottom, which is concave or inclined forward toward the trough. l) is a vertical plate, having a thumb-piece, d, and arranged to slide in guides a u, as will be readily understood from the` drawing. The lower edge ofthe slide D is cnt out on the are ot' a circle, so. that a space always exists between said edge and the inclined bottom of the chest.

*3y this construction, whatever be the quantity of tea, coffee, or rice in the chest, it will continue to feed into the trough till no more is left, and will be there convenientlyT accessible, so as to be readily removed by a scoop or other device; yet the air and dust are excluded by the cover from the portion thus fed into the trough as eftectually z s from `that within the chest proper.

rlhe opening formed by cutting out the bottom ot' the slide l), in conjunction with theinelined bottom C, insures the presence of a quantity ot' Athe tea or other article in the trough, and such form of slide also enables it to be raised when freer delivery is desired; and it is less `.expedient to raise the cover B and adjust the slide by the projection df To thus raise the slide, any suitable means or instrument may be employed-most conveniently, the scoop used in the trough.

What I claim as the improvement is- The chest or canister having the vertical slide I), with curved lower edge, the inclined false bottom, and the trough or outer receptaele, combined substantially as shown and described.

GEORGE LILLIBRIDGE. Witnesses:

G. D. HEATH, C. T. HAMILTON.

FFICE, 

